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Generally Authorized NonPropagative Plant Products

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The following plant products DO NOT require an import permit or need to meet any

USDA APHIS requirements and are generally admissible from all countries, unless

specified, into the United States. Please note that this list is not all inclusive and all

commodities are subject to inspection upon arrival into various ports of entry staffed

by Customs and Border Protection officials.

Fruits and Vegetables

Dried, cured, cooked, or processed fruits and vegetables (except frozen fruits and

vegetables), including cured figs and dates, raisins, nuts, and dried beans and peas,

may be imported without permit, phytosanitary certificate, or other compliance from

USDA APHIS.

This includes fruit and vegetable juices, cooked, purees, concentrates, pickles,

marmalades, preserves, and jellies.

Listed below are generally admissible fresh fruits and vegetables:

Aloe vera; Above ground parts

Bat Nut or Devil Pod; Fruit

Cannonball Fruit
Chinese Water Chestnut; Tuber

Corn Smut Galls; Gall

Cyperus Corm; Corm

Edible Flowers; Inflorescence

Garlic; Peeled cloves

Ginger; Rhizome; Root

Lily; Bulb

Maguey; Leaf

Matsutake; Above ground parts

Mushroom; Above ground parts

Singhara Nut; Nut

St. Johns Bread; Pod

Tamarind; Pod

Truffle; Fruit

Water Chestnut: Corm

Other Miscellaneous and Processed Products

Products not listed in the Miscellaneous Processed Products Manual or the Seeds Not

for Planting Manual are unrestricted unless covered under the Convention on

International Trade in Endangered Species1, a Federal Noxious Weed, or part of the

Federal Seed Act. Below is a list of commonly imported goods that are generally

admissible without a permit or phytosanitary certificate.

Corn flour, distilled grains (DDG), other products and by-products of grain

milling (e.g. cornmeal, grits, oil, samp, and starch)

Millet and Pseudo-millet that were alkali treated, malted, parboiled, or pearled

Rice milk or amazake

Commercially produced rice flour, rice powder, or rice starch

Commercially produced “ready-to-eat” or “ready-to-be-cooked” product

containing rice, basmati, brown rice, husked rice, or polished rice as an

ingredient

Wheat milled products and by-products: bulgur, couscous, flour, freek. Germ,

kibbled wheat, pearled or semi-pearled spelt or wheat, pelted wheat, pollards,

puffed wheat, semolina, roasted grain, wheat bran

Wooden Handicrafts that are machined smooth on all side, such as, artificial

trees, baskets, bird houses, boxes, carvings, Christmas ornaments, garden
fencing and edging, pencils, pens, picture frames, potpourri, rustic garden and

lawn/patio furniture, trellis towers, wooden knickknacks, and other similar items

composed of wood

A finished wood product that was machined smooth on all sides or

manufactured or weathered product, such as wood flooring and crown molding

that has been dove tailed or tongue and grooved; or wood sealed in acrylic

meets the requirement as finished product.

Herbal medicines, extracts, oils, and powders

New burlap as packing material

Shredded or bailed sphagnum, milled peat (in powder or crumb form), peat,

peat briquettes, peat moss, or peat tar, dried decorative moss, Spanish moss

that are clean and free from contamination

Potpourri and potpourri ingredients solely aromatic plant parts and the fixative

is of plant origin

Dried teas, herbal teas, and herbal infusions of Camellia sinensis; Commercially

packaged and ready to be boiled, steeped, or microwave in liquid of Citrus

leaves and flowers, Hibiscus flowers (including seeds, lemongrass leaves or

other plants, or mixtures of leaves, except Barberry or not commercially

packaged or moving forward for manufacturing or processing into tea

1Many plants are protected under the Convention for the International Trade in

Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). The plants listed in CITES are

considered threatened with extinction due to excessive harvesting and trade. To

prevent their extinction, CITES member countries monitor and control the trade in

CITES plants through the issuance of permits. Customs and Border Protection (CBP),

through its Memorandum of Agreement with PPQ, regulates imported, nonliving

CITES plant materials by enforcing 50 CFR § 23 and 50 CFR § 24. Products produced

from some CITES-protected plants may require permits.

For general questions:

Plant Permits Team

Email: plantproducts.permits@usda.gov

Phone: 877-770-5990